P. T. Barnum
Photograph

Edward C. Betts

Maker
American

P. T. Barnum

ca. 1875
Albumen silver print
Image: 6 × 3 15/16 in. (15.3 × 10 cm)
Mount: 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.4 × 10.7 cm)
Gift of the Chicago Historical Society
1982.0667.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TL: BARNUM, PHINEAS T.
Inscribed [autographed?] in ink on recto, BC: P. T. Barnum
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: 18 [circled]
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, TR: from Chgo Hist Soc \ thru W Howes[?] \ 1946
Printed on verso, C: Betts, \ 356 Main St. Bridgeport, Conn.
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